> > File permissions are 574. Note that owners are NOT required to have higher > permissions than groups! > > find /var/www/html -type f -exec chmod 574 {} \; Normal files really shouldn't have their execute bit set. There is no need to (since they aren't going to be executed) and just sets up security issues If you want to have only group write permissions on normal files you should set the permissions to 464 (-r--rw-r--). P.